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NBA Chief: African leaders should invest in sport

Masai Ujiri thinks sport can be a major revenue and employment generator for Africa

President of the 2019 NBA champions, Toronto Raptors' Masai Ujiri, thinks sport can be a major revenue and employment generator for Africa and wants leaders to invest more in it. In this interview with BBC's Gbolahan Macjob he says although he felt he wasn't good enough to be an NBA player, he had the skills to be a scout.

The detained leaders of Cameroon's Anglophone separatist movement have begun an indefinite hunger strike demanding to know the whereabouts of around 200 of their colleagues who went missing following riots at prisons in the capital Yaoundé.

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(Photo Credit: Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

23 minutes

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Wed 31 Jul 201919:06GMT

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  • Wed 31 Jul 201919:06GMT

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